My wildlife pond is full of blanket weed. Being about 4 metres x 7 metres x 1 metre deep in size, fishing it out is quite a chore. This morning I called in a local garden-centre with an aquarium/pond section to see if could buy a net with a long enough reach. I told the assistant what I was looking for. His advice, whilst maybe not good for trade, was really invaluable. Get a 3 metre bamboo cane, split the end and find a way of holding the split open and then use it like a spaghetti fork to twist around the weed and drag the stuff to the side. Grand lad saved me about forty quid